You have just bought your new Windows Phone 7 device and would like to start developing applications. You need to know the device’s hardware characteristics such as screen resolution and memory capability—but also which sensors and services it provides. Finally, you need to understand what the Windows Phone 7 operating system...
In order to reduce the complexity of designing and building computers, nearly all
of these are made to execute relatively simple commands (but do so very quickly).
A program for a computer must be built by combining these very simple commands
into a program in what is called machine language. Since this is a tedious and errorprone...
Information technologies impact every aspect of accounting, including financial reporting,
managerial accounting, auditing, and tax. The nature of the work done by accountants
continues to evolve as these technologies advance. For example, less than 30 years
ago, accountants could have spent much of their day footing ledgers and making...
This book presents a wide-spectrum illustration of what research in Information Retrieval
has produced or will produce in the next years. The book content includes
chapters on Aggregated Search, Digital Advertising, Digital Libraries, Discovery of
Spam and Opinions in the Web, Evaluation, Information Retrieval in Context, Multimedia...
pfSense is an open source distribution of FreeBSD-based firewall which provides a platform for flexible and powerful routing and firewalling. The versatility of pfSense presents us with a wide array of configuration options which, compared to other offerings, makes determining requirements a little more difficult and a lot more important....
This book is an attempt to bring together current research in the domain of interactive
horizontal displays. The book integrates and summarises findings from the
most important international tabletop research teams. It provides a state-of-the-art
overview and allows for the discussion of emerging and future directions in research
and...
The goal of this book is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of educational
data mining (EDM). The primary goal of EDM is to use large-scale educational data
sets to better understand learning and to provide information about the learning process.
Although researchers have been studying human learning for over a...
In 2010, HTML5 became the buzzword on the web developer scene. Large companies,
such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft, began to use the new technology.
The popularity of the catchword HTML5 grew, not least of all because of the
heated debate between Apple and Adobe over whether this would mean the end
of Flash.
Identity theft and other confidential information theft have now topped the charts as the #1 cybercrime. In particular, credit card data is preferred by cybercriminals. Is your payment processing secure and compliant? Now in its second edition, PCI Compliance has been revised to follow the new PCI DSS standard 1.2.1. Also new to this edition:...
With ever increasing frequency, financial studies in business are acquiring greater importance in the field of management as a consequence of the complexity of the problems arising in present day society. The old treaties that included certain aspects on the raising and placing of payment means have been relegated to history, leaving the way...
This brief monograph is the first one to deal exclusively with the quantitative approximation by artificial neural networks to the identity-unit operator. Here we study with rates the approximation properties of the "right" sigmoidal and hyperbolic tangent artificial neural network positive linear operators. In particular we study...
The jQuery Mobile framework is jQuery’s latest rabbit out of the hat project. The
jQuery Mobile framework is open source and is supported by all the big players:
iOS, Android, Bada, BlackBerry, Nokia, Adobe, and so, covering all the names
behind the project. It is a truly cross platform framework and porting applications
made in...
